Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000227/1985 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The appellants were convicted, after trial, on a joint charge that they attempted to steal the property of an unknown person. In support of the appeal against conviction, Mr. Matthews pointed to a discrepancy in the evidence of one of the prosecution witnesses. Briefly the evidence of that witness was that he saw the two appellants in public in the Tsim Sha Tsui area attempt to steal from a Filipino national. The detective, at the time, was in the company of another police officer who also ga